{"id":23681,"date":"2016-09-13T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23681"},"modified":"2016-09-13T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:19:08","slug":"de-when-state-shows-pc-in-forfeiture-proceeding-burden-shifts-to-def","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23681","title":{"rendered":"DE: When state shows PC in forfeiture proceeding, burden shifts to def"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This case involves a return of property petition and the state sought forfeiture. The probable cause standard for forfeiture is essentially the same at that applied in Fourth Amendment search and seizure cases. Thus, the State is required to prove more than mere suspicion, but less than prima facie proof before an item is subject to civil forfeiture. If the State is able to establish probable cause to support the seizure of the vehicle or property in question, the burden then shifts to the petitioner to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the property is not subject to forfeiture. <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.delaware.gov\/Opinions\/Download.aspx?id=245800\">Winchester v. State<\/a>, 2016 Del. Super. LEXIS 450 (Sept. 6, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous call from a teenager about \u201cboys\u201d on a parking lot \u201cplaying\u201d with guns was justification for the police to come and the initial stop was justified under Naverette. Defendant argues the age of the caller justifies less credibility, but no authority is cited, and the court would distinguish between somebody not yet a teenager anyway. United States v. Watson, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 118902 (N.D.Ind. Sept. 2, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This case involves a return of property petition and the state sought forfeiture. The probable cause standard for forfeiture is essentially the same at that applied in Fourth Amendment search and seizure cases. Thus, the State is required to prove &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,72,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-proof","category-forfeiture","category-informant-hearsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23682,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681\/revisions\/23682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}